Mar 12, 2014 | Microsoft, Office, OneNote, software, web_services
OneNote is the cross-platform note-taking program that has been included with every copy of Microsoft Office for longer than you realized. Microsoft plans to raise its profile and add features to ensure that it stays a step ahead of its biggest competitor, EverNote....
Mar 10, 2014 | mail, Microsoft, software, Windows tips, Windows8
Here’s a trick that makes it easier to keep track of the different accounts set up on your Windows 8 tablet or computer. Try this: — Open up the full-screen Mail app. — Bring out the Charms bar and click on Settings. (Charms bar: swipe in from the right,...
Feb 24, 2014 | Adobe, Office, Office tips, OneDrive, software, web_services
Offices have settled on PDF as the universal file format. PDFs are used for everything, from scanning the mail to exchanging contracts during negotiations. Offices might be creating more PDFs than Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Sometimes it’s necessary or...
Feb 9, 2014 | Apple, Office, Office tips, Outlook, software
If you’re an Outlook user and iTunes is installed on your computer, you may have an Apple add-in running in Outlook that isn’t doing anything useful. In some cases, it turns out to cause slowdowns and crashes in Outlook. Since nothing is easy these days, naturally it...
Jan 27, 2014 | IE, software, Windows tips, Windows8
Here’s a tip that might make it easier to get used to the Metro version of Internet Explorer that runs full-screen in Windows 8. After you upgrade to Windows 8.1, you have the option to always display the address bar and open tabs at the bottom of the screen....
Jan 19, 2014 | Google, IE, Internet, security, software
Tech bloggers were in an uproar today when it was discovered that extensions to Google Chrome are being hijacked to insert unwanted ads onto web pages. It’s only a symptom of a deeper problem that will plague all of us this year: the hunger to deliver ads to your...
